| Show lime compost Is proper substitute for manure compost making Is almost a lost art but at one time it flourished vigorously orous ly some of the farmers of ac r years ago were great adepts in the art in certain districts compost heaps are still made and the practice might well become general the type of compost that hint has persisted longest Is the old lime compost which Is made with soft vegetable waste mold and little the demand for stable manure is far in excess odthe supply because of the increased motor transport tile the old econ economic ornic law works and prices have risen beyond the reach of if many by increasing the lie supply of manure farmers can in a large measure supply themselves and do a public service in cheapening tile the commodity if the lie plant waste Is used as decayed manure there Is returned to the ground what aliat the crops have extracted 1 tr ted and what has been breathed in by the plants out of the air all that tl isit woodland receives receive in the sl shape I 1 ape ol of soll soil feeding Is its own fallen foliage and some nitrogen in the rain compost material Is a complete food holding nitrogen phosphate and lime iloie |
